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PODS
2009
ACM
113views Database» more  PODS 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Relative information completeness
The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic schema merging using mapping constraints among incomplete sources
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...
PODS
2008
ACM
178views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
The chase revisited
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
Alin Deutsch, Alan Nash, Jeffrey B. Remmel
AI
2011
Springer
12 years 12 months ago
Approximation of action theories and its application to conformant planning
This paper describes our methodology for building conformant planners, which is based on recent advances in the theory of action and change and answer set programming. The develop...
Phan Huy Tu, Tran Cao Son, Michael Gelfond, A. Ric...
PODS
2008
ACM
174views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
Epistemic privacy
We present a novel definition of privacy in the framework of offline (retroactive) database query auditing. Given information about the database, a description of sensitive data, ...
Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Ronald Fagin, David P. W...